Ms Acevedo asked to be shown the same level of sympathy as Mr Harper, who was reinstated as a junior minister five days ago following his resignation in February after it was revealed he had been employing Ms Acevedo illegally.

“He wasn’t criminalised and has been given a second chance,” she said.

Ms Acevedo is concerned that as a high-profile deportee to Colombia she will be a target, especially given her connection to Mr Harper.

One of the reasons she left the country in 2000 with her then five-year-old child was because her father-in-law was kidnapped.

Ms Acevedo applied for indefinite leave to remain in Britain in 2010 but was turned down because her daughter returned to Colombia for a period as a child. She has since appealed against the decision.

Yesterday evening campaign groups and unions protested against her mistreatment outside the Westminster flat that Ms Acevedo used to clean for the Tory MP.